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Fannie, Freddie Strive to Serve Housing Market, Taxpayers

Four months after the U.S. government takeover of home-mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, their chief executives and regulators again find themselves with conflicting goals.

Before the takeover, the tension was between shareholders' desire for bigger dividends and political pressure on the government-sponsored mortgage companies to support the housing market and help more low-income people afford homes. Now the conflict is...